IEA calls for car-free Sundays     Cycling on the motorway was possible and allowed on 10 car-free Sundays in 1973/74. (Photo: Rob Mieremet / Anefo, Nationaal Archief)    Will the car-less Sundays return? If it were up to the International Energy Agency (IEA), yes, especially in cities. It is one of the 10 proposals…

10,000th doctorate at TU Delft     On 22 March, Annika Krieger was the 10,000th person to receive a doctorate from TU Delft, reason for TU Delft to give her extra flowers and presents. Krieger obtained her doctorate from the Faculty of Applied Sciences with the research ‘Homogenous reduction by bifunctional manganese catalysis: a quantum…

Student wins Landlord Case for 200 Euros     Can a landlord just charge a one-off booking fee of 200 euros, a student from Rotterdam wondered. He filed a lawsuit and won. In 2018, Joris Pijpers, a student at Erasmus University College, came to live in the Rotterdam complex Lucia. Monthly rent: 718 euros for 18…

Sales exhibition for Ukraine     (Photo: Prinsenkwartier)   Artists from Kadmium and Kunstsuper have organised an art sale for Ukraine in the Prinsenkwartier in Delft. Works from more than 30 artists that are for sale are on display in a pop-up exhibition on the ground floor of the Prinsenkwartier. The artists will donate between…

Kick-off Delft Global Initiative Student Club   At the kick-off event, industrial designer and PhD student Karlheinz Samenjo talked about the development of medical products and services in Sub-Saharan Africa. (Photo: Delft Global Initiative).     Vice-Rector Magnificus Rob Mudde was impressed with the amount of interest in the Delft Global Student Club (DGSC). “It…

Ministry will tackle students’ mental problems     The coronation measures in higher education have been scrapped, but that has not eliminated the mental problems of students. Education Minister Dijkgraaf is working on tackling them, he writes (in Dutch). According to him, the Ministries of Education and Health are working on an ‘integrated approach’ to…

Film about a Delft professor awarded    Terug naar het Nederlands   The mini documentary A Story of Enlightenment about TU Delft professor Miro Zeman’s work on solar energy was awarded the Green Heron last week at the Evening of the Commissioned Film. This is the main prize for the best young…

TU Delft escape room reopens     The escape room Mission to Mars of the TU Delft Science Centre will reopen to the public on 22 March, at a new location in the city centre. According to the Science Centre, the escape room, which was the result of a graduation research project, has been expanded…

Activists sabotaged university magazine website     The website of Observant, the independent university magazine of Maastricht University, was inaccessible for a few days in January due to an attack by radical activists. They accused the magazine of ‘transphobic’ language.   Observant went to the police with an anonymous e-mail claiming the cyber-attack. The police investigation…

No maternity leave (yet) for students     Pregnant students from secondary vocational education (mbo) have been entitled to maternity leave since this academic year, but there is no such statutory provision for students from universities and universities of applied sciences.Why not, wonder the Lower House parties of PvdA and SP. For the time being,…